No it's just funny when a random person on internet claims that they are better because they "think critically".
My point is, you are not a special snowflake. You are one of 500M that think that they are smarter than others. You are not.
Basically, you are just like a 4-year old begging for attention. You will get some, but unlike 4-year old, it will wane quickly. All the best!
You might be more confident than me in people's ability to discern BS. I think I am reasonably intelligent, but I get fooled all the time. Compounding the problem is that it is easier to fool someone than to tell him he has been fooled.
The smarter you are the better you are at justifying your own beliefs and decisions, even in the face of countering evidence and/or cognitive dissonance!
I think you're misunderstanding me. If you replace "thinking you're better than everyone" with "being more knowledgable on a subject than everyone else," then I agree with your comments.
Do you honestly believe that you’re so much better then the average person? That you’ve unlocked some sort of increased intellectual ability that’s granted you access to The Secret? That you’re just…better than the lemmings?
Statistically speaking, you’re probably of about average intelligence and just have delusions of grandeur relative to “modern Americans”, perhaps based on a fundamental misunderstanding about their thoughts, intentions, and motivations. Do you really think that people “really really really despise” choice in the market? Frankly the most impassioned and vitriolic view…the one that I’d say involves “really really despising” something, or someone, is yours.
Clever and informed people simply have better tools to defend their biases. Auto-gaslighted high-intelligence individuals are more common (in my experience) than not.
Intelligence is no defence against delusion, in fact its the other way around.
We find that bullshit ability is associated with an individual’s intelligence and individuals capable of producing more satisfying bullshit are judged by second-hand observers to be more intelligent.
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